Presentation Portfolio

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Pitch decks, investor stories, keynotes & infographics — for Salesforce, Box, Meta, XOS, and more. Click any project to page through the slides.

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Narrative · Messaging · Positioning

Meta

Meta's ad spend worked. The click just had nowhere to go — Messenger on one side, the CRM on the other, nothing between them. I wrote the narrative that made the integration make sense to advertisers: the conversation itself as the missing layer, not a bolt-on. Qualifying questions doing the work a sales rep used to do. CRM handoff closing the loop. The job wasn't proving the product worked. It was making the case for why they needed it.

CleanTech · EV · Mobility

Faraday Future

Client hired me to bring them out of stealth. No name, no site, no story — just a car nobody allowed to talk about. Named it. Wrote the narrative that moved the conversation from car specs to mobile technology — range and horsepower traded for experience and $/mile. Hired the founding team that carried it. Ran marketing support for the creative work that turned that reframe into FF.com.

SaaS · Pitch Deck · Fundraising

vidIQ

vidIQ needed to set themselves apart from "another analytics dashboard." I created a walkthrough that migrated the story away from that box, market sized to the real scale of the creator economy, not as a TAM pulled off a slide template. A moat argument built on data lock-in, not features. Team slide reframed as proof of who's shaping the category, long bio pages unnecessary. So proud of this team, I've been an advisor for several years, and it's amazing to see how far they've come.

Sports · Social Campaign · Pitch Deck

Social Fan

Social Fan's pitch had multiple partners to pitch — NBA, NFL, NHL and WNBA, so similar messages, different audiences, different decks. I supported the narrative that got it done: playoffs at the moment attention is already there, creators as the distribution, the partner ecosystem as proof the whole thing was already built, not a hope. Designed the deck to carry that argument slide to slide. The biggest challenge was making a crowded partnership read like a single idea.

Enterprise · Sales Collateral · Sales Enablement

Box

Box had a hard story to tell: not "switch to us," but "keep Office 365, get Box underneath it." I owned the sales enablement message and collateral end to end; battle cards comparing Box against OneDrive and Google Drive, feature by feature, sales one-sheets, call scripts, email sequences, event collateral for the Lunch N' Learn series. Now IT teams still own the control, mapping shared permission levels to OneDrive's. Users never have to leave Office.

SaaS · Investor deck · Product Messaging

Intertrust

Intertrust needed a wedge against Slack, Dropbox, and Box — not another file drive, a reason to never leave one. We named it Kabuto, after the samurai helmet, and built the message around the gap everyone else ignored: your files were never the problem, the conversation scattered around them was. Wrote the pitch, built the deck, took it to raise a Series A. While the product worked, the market decided Slack was good enough.

Civic · Vision deck · Brand Package

WPS PWRHOUZ

A civic vision for Wausau's community of innovation — heritage, jobs, and the case for building the future locally. Wausau's civic vision for Wausau's community of innovation without a name — a heritage story for jobs, and the case for building the future locally. I gave it one: PWRHOUZ. Built the logo, the narrative running from the Wausau Group's early-20th-century founders to the building's second life, the fundraising deck that carried the whole pitch. They took the brand and renamed it "The Innovator's Exchange at the WPS Powerhouse." PWRHOUZ.com and its social handles are still mine. Inquire if you want them.

Climate · Finance · Venture Capital

FullCycle

FullCycle needed investors to see climate reversal as a return, not a donation. I wrote the narrative that made that case — then built the deck and infographics. A hundred-plus project pipeline mapped across six continents, profitable in Manila and Manchester alike. A ten-figure NPV, math-checked and footnoted. The pitch: waste isn't a liability anymore. It's the raw material for the next infrastructure fund.

CleanTech · EV · Pitch Deck

Power.Global

Power.Global's battery was built for a market most investors weren't thinking about; 2 and 3 wheeled rickshaws, not cars. That's the case I helped position: not "another EV battery," but the one engineered for where electrification is actually happening at volume, outside the US headline market. I designed the deck to carry that argument, market context first, technology second, so the opportunity was clearly understood before the specs were communicated.

Enterprise · Cloud · Sales Enablement

Ollion

Client 2ndWatch (acquired) needed a flexible slide template to tell an enterprise Managed Services Overview story for their cloud platform. Built PowerPoint template, example presentation, and reusable visual assets to make it easy to build customized decks.

HealthTech · Pitch Deck · Illustration

Murror

Considerations around the therapist shortages, Murror dreamt up a new attack, and everyone pitching that space sounds the same — "access," "scale," "AI-powered." I helped find the narrative to address the demand. Built the deck around that reframe, designed custom illustrations so the category didn't look like every other mental-health startup's stock-photo deck, and helped shape the pitch so investors saw a category being named, not a feature being pitched.

Healthcare · Policy

RRM

RRM's deck arrived loaded — AI-generated slides, every stat doing its own thing, no restraint anywhere. My job was subtraction: cut it back to a blueprint an investor could follow in one read, design the slides around the client's content instead of rewriting it wholesale. I pushed for less. Client wanted more. Client wins — that's the job. The deck ships either way.

CleanTech · EV · Marketing · Brand

XOS

XOS needed someone to run marketing, not consult on it — the fractional CMO role, full stop. I wrote the messaging platform for last-mile electrification, hired the staff to execute it, built the ABM strategy that targeted fleet buyers instead of shouting into the general EV noise, ran the events, kept the brand consistent across all of it. Not one deliverable, the entire function, for as long as they needed it. Sales leads grew 483% on my watch.

Coaching · SaaS · Brand Narrative

SaaS Academy

SaaS Academy's site had the program but needed a nudge — clarity, certainty, conversion, three words doing no work without a narrative underneath them. I built one and pitched it unsolicited: a messaging rework and review of the site pointed at Dan directly, someone I'd advised years back at Flowtown. Never heard back. Speculative work stays speculative — but the exercise forced my own methods onto the page, which is worth more than a signed contract most days.

Climate · Brand Narrative · Messaging

Terraformation

Terraformation's pitch had the mission. I built the case as memory instead of prediction — a "2050 in Retrospect," written as if the mission were already accomplished (and then some), so investors could see the endgame instead of guessing at it. Also mapped their playbook for engaging climate skeptics: when to bother, when to walk away, how to argue without making it personal. Cast a vision, wrote the tone, gave a friend's ask the full treatment.

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